World War II-Personal Narrative

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Mary and I have been best friends since the day we were born. We never grew apart, stayed in touch, and were always with each other. But as we got older, I realized I might have fallen in love. I’d never known if she would have felt the same way, so I kept this to myself forever. We had never known what was going to be coming to us. It was all on September 1, 1939, in Kingsbridge, Devon, on the day Germany invaded Poland and two days before the British declaration of war. Then on 3 September 1939 Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany. I had never experienced any kind of war and was praying I would never have to. They then had a threat of German bombing and knew they needed to do something. All schools had already closed because of …show more content…

The only way I was going home was if Mary came with me. As I arrived at the train station, I looked all around and didn’t see Mary at all. Until the train was just about the left, and I saw the same brown-haired girl with the big black glasses come running down the sidewalk. We were going home together. She got on the train and spotted me, and we sat together the entire ride home talking about this experience. I decided that this had to be the best time to tell her about the feelings I had for her. I said, Mary, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this, and the entire time we were apart, I missed you more than ever. I love you more than anything, but I don’t want to ruin our friendship. She was then silent for about 1 minute. Until she said, “Thomas, I have been the same way, I love you so much.” I knew then that was already the right time to ask her to be my girlfriend. Of course, she said yes, and now that was the best decision I had ever made. After 3 years had passed, we had both been back with our families living the best lives. It was until German V-Weapons attacks on cities east and south-east of

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